New book: "The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria" by Benjamin Claude Brower @utaustin.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-col... #colonization #personalnames #Algeria #Frenchcolonization #names #symbolicviolence

planting thousands of trees in the mid-1800s to stabilize the sandy earth, building Toompea tänav, and other incentives. First known as #Falckensteg (Falck (foot-)bridge in 1882 and moving through a variety of Russian names including, first,
#PersonalNames #Isikunimed
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